Innovation

The second annual GREATPHL opens this week. The inaugural B.PHL opens 10 days later. What’s the difference? Philly chef Eli Kulp’s presentation helps explain.

A Monmouth County coastal municipality is the first in New Jersey to offer curbside plastic film recycling. 

Philadelphia’s future LNG plant gets grant for solar panels. Environmentalists say that doesn’t make the fossil fuel project right.

A new report says Philadelphia will do quite well compared to other places in the U.S. as more work gets automated.

The researchers, who met decades ago, share a lifelong passion to stop AIDS.

Two Philly natives have invested $100,000 in dockless e-scooters. Now they just need their hometown and state to legalize them.

People who are visually impaired know what works for them and what doesn’t. They’d rather innovate their own technologies.

Tens of thousands of industry leaders came to the city this week for BIO, an international convention. Local boosters pitched Philly’s advantages.

As architects seek ways to squeeze housing into crowded Philly neighborhoods, they are turning to what ISA principal Brian Phillips calls the “leftover lots.”

Continuus Materials, a Texas-based company with a Northeast Philadelphia plant, will begin producing wallboard out of recycled flexible plastic and paper.

Watch out, Philly. More ugly fruits and veggies are coming to town.

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors.

When a robot "dies," does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is "yes," and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome.

By developing delivery drones — and a retail system that would connect customers with local merchants — Google's parent company is directly competing with Amazon.

Chances are you retrieved one of the 26 billion robocalls made last year. We discuss robocalls, what's being done to stop them, and how to protect yourself.